On the margins of UNGA 81, leading civil society and digital rights organizations will examine balancing aspirations for digital sovereignty.

This guidebook was developed by the CBIKS Data Sovereignty Co-Lab for use by the CBIKS team in managing data across projects. This tool is useful to researchers in many disciplines, as it outlines dat...

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew recently hosted the 2026 State of the World’s Plants and Fungi Symposium. The event brought together experts to focus on the “digitisation of herbarium and fungarium col...

Full-Stack Developer (Plains Cree and Métis) Nolan (he/him) is a Full-Stack Developer at Local Contexts and the organization’s first full-time international employee. He joined the development team to...

The Local Contexts team will present at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) 2026 Annual Meeting, held in-person in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Outreach Manager Emily Santhanam (Chickasaw) will presen...

Local Contexts Strategic Advisor Maui Hudson (Whakatōhea) will present as part of the State of the World’s Plants and Fungi Symposium, online and in-person at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, UK...

Local Contexts is excited to welcome Aotearoa Genomic Data Repository (AGDR) as a certified Integration Partner on the Local Contexts Hub. “We are thrilled to welcome AGDR as our second certified Inte...

The Local Contexts team will present as part of the 51st Annual Conference of IASSIST, the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology.  On June 3 UTC, Outreach Man...

The Stillaguamish Tribe in Washington state has been buying land in its traditional territory and removing levees. The goal is to turn farmland into wetlands with the hopes of restoring Chinook…

We are excited to share our 2024-2025 Annual Report, our organization’s first public-facing report of this kind.  After a welcome from Executive Director Hop Hopkins, you will find stories around our ...

The Local Contexts team will present at the 47th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology held virtually and in-person in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States. Outreach Coordinator Amy June Brees...

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The Ethical Data Initiative (EDI), in partnership with the TUM Think Tank and the University of Exeter, is delighted to invite you to participate in our Annual Multi-Stakeholder Townhall Meeting. This...

Please join us for a screening of the short documentary "E Kore Au E Ngaro [The Connection Remains]" and a discussion about Indigenous data sovereignty with Prof. Jane Anderson...

The Association on American Indian Affairs 11th Annual Repatriation Conference will feature Native Nation Leaders, academics, lawyers, government officials, foreign institutions, artists and the publi...

On the cusp of what could be a new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), some researchers are urging caution and the need for deliberate controls to keep the developing technology from robbing Indigeno...

The Local Contexts Hub (https://localcontextshub.org/) is a website that facilitates the use of the Local Contexts Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labe...